Lake
Lake Kyoga
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake Kyoga measures about 1,730 km² (668 mi²), the 66th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and 1.03× the size of the Comoros.
50 km
- Lake Kyoga
- Comoros
The numbers
- 1,730km²Area, measured668 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 1,720km²Area, publishedWikidata · agrees within 2%
- 5.7mGreatest depthWikidata
- 914mAbove sea levelSurface, Wikidata
The area is measured from the outline drawn above, on the WGS84 ellipsoid; the published figure is shown beside it, and a water body is kept only if the two are within 10%.
What the numbers say about Lake Kyoga
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 219× the size of Lake Kyoga; Lake Kyoga ranks 66th.
- Lake Kyoga sits between Lac La Martre (1,740 km²) and Williston Lake (1,660 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake Kyoga would be larger than 36 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 177th by area, between Mauritius (2,000 km²) and the Comoros (1,670 km²).
- It is larger than 1 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Washington, D.C., 162 km²) and smaller than 50.
- It is smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
- The closest US state is Rhode Island (2,830 km²): Lake Kyoga is 61% of the size of Rhode Island.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 6 m.
- Its surface lies about 914 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- Lake Kyoga lies at 1°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
- Laid out flat, Lake Kyoga stretches about 62 km north to south and 107 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 1,720 km² agrees with our measured 1,730 km², to within 2%.
About the same size as
Countries
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Uganda contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Kyoga. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.
Names
- Lake Kyogathe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Kyogaalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake Kyoga ranks
Lake Kyoga is the 66th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, ranked by measured area.
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Lakes + Reservoirs, public domain (Lakes + Reservoirs). Outlines of lakes are drawn at 1:10 million.
- Boundary
- A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own. The outline is a cartographic one, and the page says so by showing the measured area beside the published one.
- Area basis
- Measured outline: computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline and shown rounded. Published figure: Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11. An outline is kept within 10% of the published figure and matched to other places automatically within 5%.
- Depth, volume, height
- As recorded in Wikidata; a volume that cannot be right for the area and depth is left out.
- Shore
- Countries whose Natural Earth outline contains or comes close to the water's outline; computed, not a statement of ownership.
- Drawing
- Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and two can be laid over each other.
- Data built
- 2026-11-11